Nicaraguan Socialist Party

The Nicaraguan Socialist Party (PSN) is a communist political party in Nicaragua which was founded in 1944 by Mario Flores Ortiz. At the time of its foundation, it supported the regime of Anastasio Somoza Garcia (whom it saw as an anti-fascist ally), and it was the legal communist party in the country. By the mid-1960s, however, the party had only 250 members, with the majority of its former membership joining the new Communist Party of Nicaragua. After the surge of the Sandinistas, the party was sidelined, and it joined hands with right-wing forces in 1990 to oust the Sandinistas from power.